To promote monitoring of radio and television programmes that encourage justifications for crime, violence, torture, racism and other forms of discrimination, the actions of extermination squads, and the death penalty, in order to identify the responsible parties and take the pertinent legal measures; To prohibit propaganda containing neo-Nazi ideas or those of other ideologies that advocate violence, particularly against minority groups; To propose legislation aimed at preventing the use of the Internet to encourage practices that violate human rights; To support, in conjunction with the available communication mediums, initiatives intended to raise the self-esteem of Afro-descendants, indigenous peoples, and other groups historically victimized by racism and other forms of discrimination; To guarantee all Brazilian citizens the right of freedom of belief and worship; To prevent and combat religious intolerance, including with regard to religious minorities and Afro-Brazilian cults; To implement the provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief adopted by the General Assembly on 25 November 1981; To prohibit the dissemination of racist and/or xenophobic propaganda and messages that are defamatory to religions and incite hatred for spiritual and cultural values; To encourage dialogue among religious movements directed toward the construction of a pluralist society based on the recognition of and respect for differences in belief and worship; To support the functioning and implementation of the resolutions of the National Commission to Combat Racism incorporated in the Ministry of Justice; To stimulate the dissemination and application of anti-discrimination legislation, as well as the repeal of discriminatory norms contained in infraconstitutional legislation; To stimulate the establishment of channels providing the population with direct and regular access to government information and documents, particularly information on the status of investigations and legal actions concerning cases of human rights violations; To support the adoption, by the Government and the private sector, of affirmative action policies as a way to combat inequality; To promote studies on the modification of the Law of Public Competitive Bidding Procedures, so as to allow that, in cases in which all bidding procedures have been exhausted and the candidates remain tied, the criterion for breaking the tie, which currently consists in picking the winning bidder by lottery, be replaced with one involving the adoption, by the bidders, of affirmative action policies that favour discriminated groups; To support the inclusion in school curricula of material on the problem of discrimination in Brazilian society and the right of all groups and individuals to equal treatment before the law; To support the activities of the National Council on the Rights of Women, as well as the State and municipal women's rights councils; To promote the development of federal, State, and municipal government programmes intended to ensure equal rights at all levels, including as regards health, education and professional training, employment, social security, rural property and credit, culture, political freedom, and justice; To provide incentives for training primary and secondary education teachers on the National Parameters for Curricula in regard to questions connected with the promotion of gender equality and the effort to combat discrimination against women; To provide incentives for courses aimed at preparing women to exercise local leadership positions, for the purpose of meeting the quota requirements for women candidates to elected office; To support the regulation of article 7, section XX, of the federal Constitution, which sets forth provisions on the protection of women in the labour market; To support programmes aimed at raising awareness, with regard to issues related to gender and domestic and sexual violence, in the training and preparation of future health care and legal professionals and civil and military police officers, with an emphasis on the protection of the rights of Afro-descendant and indigenous women; To support the Brazilian State's acknowledgement that slavery and the transatlantic slave trade constituted grave and systematic violations of human rights, which today would be considered crimes against humanity; To support the Brazilian State's recognition of the economic, social, and political marginalization to which Afro-descendants have been subjected as a consequence of slavery; To adopt, within the scope of the union, and to promote the adoption by the States and municipalities of compensatory measures aimed at eliminating racial discrimination and promoting equal opportunity, such as: expanding access by Afro-descendants to public universities, professional courses, high-tech training, public offices and positions, including commissioned posts, in numbers that are proportional to their representation in Brazilian society as a whole; To establish databases on the situation in Brazilian society concerning the civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights of Afro-descendants, which should serve as guides in the adoption of affirmative public policies; To study the feasibility of establishing social reparation funds intended to finance policies for affirmative action and the promotion of equal opportunity; To implement the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, ILO Convention No. 111 concerning discrimination in employment and occupation, and the Convention against Discrimination in Education; To promote the creation and functioning of assistance and legal counselling programmes to expand access by Afro-descendants to the legal system; To support the regulation of article 68 of the Temporary Constitutional Provisions Act, which sets forth provisions for recognizing the permanent ownership of the lands occupied by the remaining runaway slave communities; To promote the registration and identification of the remaining runaway slave communities throughout the national territory for the purpose of issuing permanent title deeds to their lands; To support measures intended to remove squatters and intruders on titled lands belonging to runaway slave communities; To support infrastructure projects in the remaining runaway slave communities as a way of preventing rural exodus and promoting the social and economic development of those communities; To establish an administrative unit within the National Agrarian Settlement and Reform Institute, INCRA, intended to provide support to small black farmer associations in the development projects of runaway slave community; To promote actions that contribute to preserving historical memory and fostering cultural production in the black community in Brazil; To promote the mapping and registration, as part of the nation's historical heritage, of those sites and documents that are of historical relevance, as well as the protection of Afro-Brazilian cultural expressions; To stimulate proportional representation by the racial groups that comprise Brazilian society in institutional advertisements contracted by agencies of the direct and indirect administration and State-owned companies; To encourage a dialogue with professional associations and public relations agents aimed at convincing them of the need to ensure that advertisements and commercials adequately reflect the racial composition of Brazilian society and avoiding the use of disparaging stereotypes; To examine the feasibility of modifying article 61 of the Brazilian Criminal Code for purposes of including race, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related forms of intolerance as aggravating circumstances to be considered in the application of penalties; To propose measures intended to strengthen the role of the Public Ministry in promoting and protecting the rights and interests of the victims of racism, racial discrimination, and related forms of intolerance; To support the requirement that race/colour be included in the information and registration systems relative to the population and in public databases; To support the activities of the Working Group on the Elimination of Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, incorporated in the Ministry of Labour and Employment; To encourage the participation of Afro-descendant representatives on the federal, State, and municipal councils formed to safeguard rights and to support the creation of State and municipal councils intended to safeguard the rights of Afro-descendants; To stimulate the State secretariats for public safety to offer training courses and seminars on racism and racial discrimination; To propose a draft bill regulating articles 215, 216 and 242 of the federal Constitution, which address the exercise of cultural rights and the formation of Brazil's cultural heritage; To propose that the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics adopt broad statistical criteria designed to consider blacks and mestizos as part of the overall Afro-descendant population; To support the review of textbooks for the purpose of reclaiming the historical record and the contribution of Afro-descendants to the construction of the nation's identity; To promote learning that is founded on tolerance, peace, respect for differences, and that takes into account the country's cultural diversity, including the teaching of the culture and history of Afro-descendants; To support the strengthening of the Palmares Cultural Foundation, assuring it the necessary means for the performance of its activities; To formulate and implement policies that protect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples, as substitutes for policies aimed at integrating and providing assistance to the indigenous populations; To support the restructuring of the National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, in such a way that permits the institution to guarantee the constitutional rights of indigenous peoples; To provide FUNAI with sufficient human and financial resources to fulfil its institutional mission of safeguarding the rights of indigenous peoples; To support the review of the Indian Statute (Law No.
- Ratificar el Protocolo Facultativo de la Convención sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer.